Thursday, 12/25/25, Christmas Day! Happy Birthday Jesus! We went for breakfast to Bruce and Melissa’s, then we went to Vikki’s, then to Kimmy’s.

The table was set beautifully.  The bowls Kimmy made for Bruce’s mom to give Bruce and Melissa for Christmas the past few years looked beautiful and were so nice.

Bruce and Melissa...our host and hostess with the mostess!

Max took this nice picture for us. He was too full to eat.  We had homemade cinnamon rolls when we got there.

Vader opening his gift.  He opens pretty fast!

Vader and the guinea pigs

Max, Vader, Jack, Hailey and Evan

Vader

Max and Jack opening gifts

Jack showing me his sweatshirt he got and Bruce opening a gift

Another nice shirt Jack got

Hailey found this beautiful sweater for Melissa.  She finds the prettiest clothes and best deals

Evan was so happy to get a Lego set.  Missy was happy to see him like it so much  He really liked it and showed it!

Max was happy with all of his nice gifts

Bill and I watching.  I got a Yankee car scent hanger from Hailey.  Also got Bath and Body hand sanitizer that smells great and a Best Smelling candle from the boys.  It smells like apple pie and cinnamon.

Evan makes the Christmas tree look short

Cheese toy Hailey got for Bill.  You can stretch it and make a hat.  When you sit it down, it goes back into a square like it came.  Good hand therapy squeezing it too.  I had fun with it.  Of course Bill was so happy with a cheese toy.  Good job Hailey!

Bill and his cheese toy

Hailey with all of her gifts.  She got lots of nice things

Bill and I loved our gifts

Max had a big pile to open too

These pictures were the first one taken but got out of order for some reason

The kids and their Christmas stockings in the morning

Even the guinea pigs opened their presents

Bill and I don’t make the tree look 

Bill and I make the tree look tall again

Bruce and Melissa

Next we went to Visit Vikki, Rody and the kids

Peyton and Isaac put on a Banjo and Guitar concert for us.  They sure were cute

My fun twins

Roz with Peyton.  She is one of my favorite people.  She and her husband Lonnie used to be in our CMA chapter with us

Beautiful Peyton

Next we went to visit Kimmy, Jared and the boys


Adam

Jacob with his Lion’s jersey on.  We thought for sure the Lions would win with him wearing that. LOL...we were wrong

Eli and Basil

Eli, me, papa, Jacob and Adam in front of the Christmas tree 

We went to Bruce and Melissa’s at 10 a.m.  We had homemade cinnamon rolls that were delicious.  We sat in the living room and everyone opened their gifts.  Everyone got such nice things and lots of love and thought went into the gifts you could tell.  Papa got a cheese toy that he will love for a long time.  Thanks Hailey.  He turned it into a hat tonight and had it on his head.  I FaceTimed Melissa and Hailey to show them.  

It went right back into this square shape by itself afterwards.

We all ate after the gifts were opened.  Bruce had made everything you could think of for breakfast....pancakes, eggs, fresh fruit, fried potatoes, corned beef hash, bacon, sausage, and cheesy potatoes.  This has been our tradition on Christmas for quite a few years now.  We sure look forward to it and sure appreciate Bruce and Melissa going to so much work making everything for us.  Everything was super delicious.  We cleared the table and Bruce got the kitchen cleaned up, then we sat and visited longer.  

We had to leave to go to Vikki’s next.  Vikki had an electric throw turned on and ready for me when I got there.  I was so sleepy, I fell asleep in her chair.  Peyton and Isaac showed me what they got for Christmas and Isaac played the electric guitar and Peyton played the ukulele.  They sounded good.  We stayed there until they had to get ready to go to Rody’s family Christmas at his aunt Ann’s.  Please keep Aunt Ann in prayer.  She has cancer again and has to have radiation.

We had to leave to go to Kimmy and Jared’s next.  I was happy I could go up their deck steps the right way.  We had fun visiting and drinking coffee.  Then Jared, Kimmy, Bill and I decided to play Euchre to help Kimmy learn better.  We sure had fun.  Kimmy was getting it down real good at the end.  We wanted to play another game, but Jacob told us the Lion’s were playing, so we stopped and watched the game. Kimmy made us lots of popcorn to eat during the game. They started out good and went down hill from there[ and ended up losing.  We took a picture with the boys in front of the tree, then we left to come home.  I had a turkey sandwich when I got home, and Bill had some white meat.  We went to bed after that.  They are saying the roads are going to be very icy and we will get sleet and snow from 5 am til 4 p.m. Friday.  Kimmy and Jared are watching the weather to see if they should wait to leave for Indiana.  I am praying for them to get there safely when they go.